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Monday, March 14, 2011

Yesterday I mentioned that next month's Noir City schedule hadn't been posted yet, although a couple of the titles had been previewed. Tonight the full schedule was announced, and it's terrific.

The 13th Annual Noir City Festival will take place at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard between April 1st and April 20th, 2011.

Opening night will duplicate the first night of January's San Francisco festival, with a restored print of HIGH WALL (1947). HIGH WALL is one of Robert Taylor's best postwar pictures; it costars Audrey Totter and Herbert Marshall and was directed by Curtis Bernhardt.

Playing with HIGH WALL will be a restored print of STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT (1944), a 56-minute Republic programmer directed by Anthony Mann.

Two films being shown during the festival which I'd love to see on the big screen are CAUGHT (1949), a Max Ophuls film with Robert Ryan, James Mason, and Barbara Bel Geddes, and THE BRIBE (1949), which stars Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Vincent Price, Charles Laughton, and John Hodiak.

THE BRIBE plays with JOURNEY INTO FEAR (1943), written by and starring Joseph Cotten.

As I mentioned yesterday, Peter Ford will be signing his new biography of his father at a double bill of Glenn Ford films, FRAMED (1947) and MR. SOFT TOUCH (1949). The schedule adds the information that there will be a discussion with Peter Ford between movies.

Last year was my first visit to the festival. Hopefully this year I'll be able to attend multiple screenings!